Software Engineer, Full Stack, Data & Video Analysis

SpaceX

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust

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Work type
On-site
Location
Hawthorne, CABrownsville, TX
Salary
$125,000–$160,000 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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About SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Full Stack, Data & Video Analysis

The Software Engineer, Full Stack (Data & Video Analysis) joins the Vehicle Analysis Tooling team to build applications essential for production, test, and flight operations. You will own the full development path, creating platforms that ingest and process high-volume engineering data like telemetry, sensor data, and video into actionable analysis. Key responsibilities include building internal tools and web interfaces for querying and visualizing data, integrating statistical models, computer vision, and large language models for anomaly detection, and managing production infrastructure. Required skills include full-stack development and Python for data processing. Preferred experience involves video platforms, computer vision libraries like OpenCV, machine learning frameworks like PyTorch, the Python data stack including Pandas and NumPy, PostgreSQL, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and languages such as Go, Rust, or C#.

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What you'll do

  • Design and maintain full-stack applications to process telemetry, sensor data, and video into actionable engineering analysis.
  • Build internal web interfaces for engineers to query, visualize, and act on large engineering datasets.
  • Integrate statistical models, computer vision, and large language models into review workflows for anomaly detection.
  • Profile and optimize performance for data processing, database queries, and interactive views of large datasets.
  • Manage production infrastructure including deployments, monitoring, operations, and capacity planning.
  • Move prototypes into production using automated tests, CI/CD, and repeatable release processes.
  • Respond to production failures, restore services, and implement permanent software fixes.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related scientific discipline.
  • 2+ years of professional software experience in lieu of a degree.
  • 1+ years of full-stack development experience.
  • 1+ years of experience writing Python for data processing, services, or user-facing application code.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.
  • Experience with video platforms, infrastructure, and high-volume engineering video (preferred).
  • Experience with computer vision libraries, machine learning frameworks, or serving models for inference (preferred).
  • Experience with the Python data stack, relational databases, and Linux/Docker/Kubernetes (preferred).

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